Republican Dan Maes’ candidacy has turned into a political version of “Let’s Make a Deal,” as conservatives continue to try to talk him into dropping out of the governor’s race.

The question is whether the conversations are part of political give-and-take or whether they violate state law, which makes it illegal to offer to give or to accept anything of value to get out a race.

Maes supporter Joe Harrington said Monday that two county GOP chairmen and a well-known blogger separately talked to him about a wealthy donor setting up a nonprofit foundation if Maes were to leave the race. Harrington said he believes the offer was illegal.

But the blogger, Ross Kaminsky, said that account is inaccurate and it was Harrington who first suggested a deal.

Maes is trailing badly in the polls, losing to Democratic front-runner John Hickenlooper and Tom Tancredo, a former GOP congressman running on the American Constitution Party ticket. Conservatives believe if Maes drops out, Tancredo has a chance of beating Hickenlooper.

Maes has declined all efforts to get him to leave the race, and he ripped Tancredo in an e-mail that Harrington also posted on Facebook.

“Tell that hypocritical, draft dodging, TARP voting, pot endorsing thug to get out of the race and let the people’s choice win this thing for real conservatives,” the Maes e-mail said.

Said Bay Buchanan, Tancredo’s campaign manager: “Dan Maes is an angry, bitter man who has no one but himself to blame.”

Kaminsky said he and Harrington had been exchanging e-mails about what it would take for Harrington to support Tancredo. He said Harrington replied that among the conditions was that Maes would be named Tancredo’s running mate and get to pick two Cabinet secretaries. Kaminsky said he doubted any sort of deal could be reached.

“I called a guy I know who is sort of close to Tom,” Kaminsky said. “This guy said, ‘Look, I’m not involving Tom in this conversation, but I’ve heard this idea of some kind of commission, not a government-paid job, but something that would be funded with private money.’

“That’s all I got from that guy. I never heard the word ‘foundation,’ never heard of any name or where the money might be coming from.

“I called Joe and said, ‘This guy’s heard this idea of a commission.’ “

Kaminsky said he made it clear to Harrington that he did not know “where the lines are” and if the conversation continued, he wanted to contact an election attorney.

Kaminsky said the conversation with Harrington never went any further because unbeknown to him, Tancredo and Maes had met and each vowed to remain in the race.

Harrington unsuccessfully sued to get Tancredo off the ballot, believing he joined the American Constitution Party too late to be its candidate.

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